The movie focuses on an impoverished young girl who joins a roving crew of other unwanted teenagers who sell
magazine subscriptions door to door.
Arnold was reportedly inspired by a New York Times article about groups of young people who travel the country selling
magazine subscriptions door - to - door, in part because that sounds so utterly implausible in today's world.
Not exact matches
I started going
door to
door in 1995 to sell
subscriptions to a
magazine and call - in service, in which people would submit reviews of the work someone had done for them.
So now, even before Emma Benson, a field director for the conservative political organization Americans for Prosperity, knocks on a
door, she has more than 700 data points about the person behind it, like
magazine subscriptions, car ownership (make, model, year), propensity for voting, and likes and dislikes mined from Facebook and Twitter, from rock bands to baseball teams.
The film, which Arnold researched by spending several months with
door - to -
door subscription sellers, «will follow a teenage girl who joins a traveling
magazine sales crew and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard - partying, law - bending and young love.»
Amazon is working overtime to promote the Kindle as a
magazine reading device, with some 400
magazines available in its Newsstand and offers for free
subscriptions to some of them for those users who buy the Fire early
doors.
They do it to get you in the
door hoping you'll spend exta money on some used games, a
magazine subscription or something else they acctually make some profit on, because they only make a few bucks on new games.